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Just another picture of the starship fleet and its tank farm.

Hello from Noord-Holland!

If UK people are paying more it is exclusively because of how the UK is applying the rules. The money goes to to the UK government following the UKs interpretation of the rules.

The closest I have got to Astronomy the past few weeks has been Moon halos...

Only bought a tripod from ali express. The delivery took longer because of issues clearing customs, but the goods were excellent quality.

@Jamgood superb!

It is a planetary camera, quite a good one.

Now I can have both my camera and telescopes set up at the same time. Much more likely to get out with my telescopes now!

Artcise CS60C tripod direct from China. 1.3 kgs weight, load 18 kg, carbon fibre. I think it uses R.E.A. tech (reverse engineered alien technology).

I think the noise is much more of a problem for nearby animals than the steam, it is enough to do physical harm. I do feel sorry for the seagulls flapping past rockets just before ignition.

Some more pictures: https://terramex.neocities.org/astro/

Bit worrying as this rocket is supposed to carry tourists! It isn't a test rocket like the previous one.

Shopping and procrastinating.

Reddish face here. My understanding of the AZ GTi wifi capabilities was wrong, leading to heartache last night. I had thought that AZ GTi defaulted to Station mode every time it starts, but actually it remembers its connection to my home wifi, and both Station and Client mode are running at the same time. So the process that appears to work is: 1. Connect ASI178MM to Pi. Connect PI to ethernet. 2. Connect AZ-GTi and Pi to power tank and power on. 3. Use Mesh wifi app to get the AZ-GTi IP (the AZ-GTi is the device called "ESP-######") 4. Connect to Pi from laptop and enter AZ-GTi IP into Ekos. Real shame I didn't figure this out last night. Will update my previous posts to indicate my information on AZ-GTi wifi was wrong.

It all worked indoors by daylight of course!

My reasoning for not connecting everything to my home wifi was given earlier in the thread

I only use the Pi wifi to connect to Pi to AZ GTi. Everything else is connected via network cable or USB.

No luck connecting to synscan wifi tonight - the Pi joins then drops off after 5 seconds.

And now I am looking at stars again! Mount not aligned or tracking of course.

Pi, power tank, AZ GTi, EF 100/f2.8 and ASI178MM are outside and I am inside looking at... 2x2 binned clouds 😐 As they would say in Houston, all systems are nominal, but the launch window is slipping by. I did have a brief period of clear skies that let me nail focus.

Perfect night for astronomy tonight but too tired from work. Still, the stars are brilliant tonight.

Good advice for coffee mugs and telescopes too! We've all seen the pictures of back-to-front Newts in movies.

This may not be the best picture in this thread, but it did win a prize (okay, my family's whatsapp picture of the month)...

I have had both Nirvanas and ES 82, and the ES are a step up all around in my opinion.

Monster good stuff! Thanks! EDIT: On second thoughts, this seems to need to use the mount in EQ mode with EQMOD software, so I will file this one for later consideration 😀 EDIT2: Although one person has it working with Pi according to the reviews... Product description could be improved?